Beyond brilliant, emotive electronica very much indicative of its time & place. Chugging rhythms, gamelan-esque synth patterns, gently fluttering atmospherics, and liquified beats refresh the memories of Black Dog, B12, the Clear label, old Kirk DeGiorgio, et al. But it's all done in the unique way that innovative Japanese artists made their own back in the day, the spatial drift of Detroit techno soul glimpsed through shimmering curtains of zen-like ping and post-Blade Runner tableau. Like the first Virgo, an unheralded classic.

It's interesting to note that track 3 "Utia" uses the same main atmospheric pad found in Penance "Marine Snow" (Featured in another release, from same label called Art Form 2.)